Our friends at Rorate have published the English translation of key portions of the new book from the secretary of the late Pope Emeritus, Archbishop Georg Gänswein. The book is entitled “Nient’ altro che la verità: La mia vita al fianco di Benedetto XVI” (Nothing but the truth: My life beside Pope Benedict XVI) (Piemme,…
“I’m sorry about Benedict.” I turned from my dog to my daughter. “Did he die?” I asked my daughter. “Yeah,” she said. “Who died?” said my six-year-old son. “Pope Benedict, the former pope.” I was taking it in. It wasn’t hitting me yet. I said to my son: “Now he goes to judgment. We pray…
Dear Dr. Kwasniewski, Watching Mass of the Ages Episode 2 and your interview with Raymond Arroyo brought up some questions I’ve been struggling with. First, doesn’t it seem like the Novus Ordo was close to what the Council Fathers intended? I say this because (a) we know that Bugnini was secretary of the committee that…
People often ask me: “What’s your advice for Catholics living in a diocese where the TLM has been limited or eliminated, or where there is a threat that this might happen? What should we do?” As we round the corner of one year past the infamous Responsa ad Dubia of then-archbishop Roche of the then-Congregation…
Above: a Coptic iconostasis in the diaspora showing the liturgical curtains which veil the altar from the laity. Note: the following open letter was written by a regular reader of Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal, in response to an article, published there on November 1st, that was guilty of egregious errors and insulting characterizations. The…
Above: an official promotional graphic of the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality (posted at their Facebook page here). On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass. -CIC, can. 1247. It is Saturday evening, and I am trying to endure another “Sunday” Mass in my hometown. A snowstorm,…
Above: Cardinal Burke celebrates the Latin Mass in Tampa, Florida, for the feast of Christ the King. One fateful day, I heard through whispered breath a claim that Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke would be visiting Tampa. Through some digging, I found out he’d be visiting the Epiphany of Our Lord parish. Before making the long,…
Latin Mass Restrictions Activate the Laity This past Saturday, a group of 300 Catholics processed five miles between St. Thomas More Cathedral in Arlington, VA (the main cathedral of the Diocese of Arlington) and St. Matthew the Apostle Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (the main cathedral of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.). We carried beautiful Catholic…
Editor’s note: how is your family saving the Latin Mass in your domestic church? Send us a submission: editor [at] OnePeterFive.com. This June brought a great blessing, and a pitiable curse, to my family. The blessing, aptly named, came from welcoming little Benedict to our clan. The curse, predictably, was yet another run-in with a…
A group of Catholics have taken to praying the Rosary outside of the Papal Nunciature in Washington, D.C. for the preservation of the Traditional Latin Mass each Saturday at 10 AM. I began organizing these rallies on July 29, 2022, after decrees cancelling the vast majority of Traditional Latin Masses were issued by the Diocese…
Editor’s note: as I stated in my initial comments on the film’s release, the Mass of the Ages trilogy was produced by a number of OnePeterFive contributors and friends of our organisation. At that time I predicted that the film would “put to silence any ignorant, irrational or uncharitable critics of the traditional movement by…
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